Democratic transformations in Europe : challenges and opportunities
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Democratic transformations in Europe : challenges and opportunities
（Routledge advances in European politics, 130）
Routledge, 2016
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Democracies evolve. Their evolution is not only key to their survival; it is also a reflection of the changing environment in which they operate. This book contributes to the analysis and understanding of how democratic states have transformed over time by examining a number of challenges and opportunities that they face.
With a focus on 'Europe 31', understood as the EU28 plus Switzerland, Norway, and Iceland, the book brings together separate strands of literature which often remain disconnected in political science narratives. Looking at citizen-state relations, the restructuring of politics and institutions of the state, and developments which reach 'beyond and below' the state, it interrogates a variety of issues ranging from the decline of parties or the re-emergence of nationalism as a political force, to liberal challenges to social democracy, terrorist threats, and climate change. The book combines these different dimensions into a comprehensive overview of the state of contemporary democracy, its challenges and opportunities, and its dynamic capacity to adapt. In other words, it deals with the perpetual threats to and transformations of democracy, and the state's ability to protect and strengthen its democratic attributes.
This text will be of key interest to scholars of European Politics, Comparative Politics, and Democracy Studies.
Table of Contents
1. The Transformation of Democracy
Part I: Citizen-State Relation
2. A Re-Emergence of Nationalism as a Political Force in Europe?
3. What Kind of Challenge? Right-Wing Populism in Contemporary Western Europe
4. Party Decline?
5. Democratic Discontent in Times of Crisis?
Part II: Restructuring the Politics and Institutions of the State
6. The Struggle between Liberalism and Social Democracy
7. The Sustainability of European Welfare States: the Significance of Changing Labour Markets
8. Intra-EU Migration and the Moral Sustainability of the Welfare State
9. Displacing Politics. The State of Democracy in an Age of Diffused Responsibility
Part III: Governing Beyond and Below the State
10. Terrorism, Counterterrorism and Democracy
11. Climate Change Mitigation
12. Minority Rights under Majority Rule: LGB-Rights in Europe
13. Is the European Public Sphere Good for Democracy?
14. Multi-Jurisdictional Politics: State Adaptation and Mixed Visions of Democracy
15. The Contemporary State of Democracy in a Transformed Europe
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